And then there was Zumba...

I have never been a real big fan organized aerobics. I preferred to look silly in the safety of my own home doing the occasional work ot video there. I would (and still do) go to the gym every Sunday and do my regular workout with weights and a lot of cardio- but on Wednesday's and Saturday's...I get my zumba on! It is impossible not to smile while you are sweating your ass off. You get to pretend your dancing (it doesn't matter how well you actually dance) and shake your groove thang while working out. This is perfect, especially for South Texas where salsa and samba and all those other sexy dance that people are semi-familiar with- all those get combined with hip hop and other fast rythms and it is just fun! I wish everyone in Corpus could have free access to these classes and then maybe we wouldn't be such an obese city. I know it may sound silly or idealistic- nobody likes to go to the gym, but they love going to eat greasy Mexican food and pizza. I guess this doesn't really bother me personally except for all the bad press about how fat we are when not all of us fat with diabetes. It does bother me though when a fat person complains about their weight and sedentary lifestyle and does absolutely Nothing to change it. Oh well, I guess, it's not me (hopefully) that's going to die of a coronary at 30, it's the fat whiners!

What am I doing?

I recently made a FaceBook page for myself. It is an interesting site to say the least, it works to connect you with all the people my friends know and a few extras. This can be both good and bad. I only want to talk to people I know on FB but many seem to use it for finding new friends. I always reflect back to something I saw on the Daily Show when I think of FB...one of the pundits said "I have 3,000 friends and no one to hang out with." I think that is true, FB may be increasing interconnectivity between people but it doesn't increase human interaction which is what people really need. On campus students run around with their cell phones firmly clutched in their sweaty palms feverishly texting someone in the distance rather than look up and examine the world around them or (dare I say it) meet someone new and hang out with them face to face. They use their cell phones as a shield against communication while using their cell phones as a form of communication. The awkwardness of this does not escape me but it is true none the less.

My first blah-g

So this is my first blogging experience. I do not really know what to say, I am just releasing words out into cyberspace. I hope they find a good home. I think I will just insert a quick quote from someone that encapsulated my feelings best about blogs: “People have often described me as a blogger. I generally shy away from the term because, to me, bloggers are boring, self obsessed narcissists who use their website mainly as a means to discuss the inconsequential minutiae of their day to day lives.” (Anonymous writer) but now that I have said that, or rather someone has said it for me, I will close with a more interesting take on the blog: “I believe the term “blog” means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.” (Michael Arrington) I hope that this is at least an interesting blog...